The Ethical Criticism On The Environment Economics From Sagoff

Environment economics, no matter in Eastern or Western, though is a new discipline, is rapidly used in the developing and protecting of the environment to solve the rising problem between the environment and development, and the environment economics has made a great influence that people in the world make their environment policy and decide their environment development project access the theory of environment economics. But scholars find that the environment economics is not well solved the contradiction between the environment and the economic development, on the contrary, the environment economics is of no use in protecting the environment but serving the desire of economic interest. In this condition, scholars concerned about the environment protection begin to find out the problem of the environment economics and criticize on it.Mark Sagoff is a member of these scholars. By the way of weak anthropocentrism, he noted the ethical limitation of the environment economics and criticized the target, the concept and the method of the environment economics. The opinion of Sagoff is full of the power of persuasion, but there are still puzzles and there are still of possibility to improve. The existence of puzzle influences little on the meaning of his criticism. The criticism of the environment economics comes from the failure of protecting the environment by deciding the environment policy through the environment economics, so the criticism of the environment economics will definitely influence the decision of the environment policy. The criticism of the environment economics based on the weak anthropocentrism will lead us to promote the value selection, analysis method and real effect of the environment policy in the course of making the environment policy, and balance the desire of environment policy to develop economy and the desire of environment to exit and develop itself.